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PnK<" 2 The Nrntlarl, (Mtagr Grove, OrrfOM SAGINAW Thun«.. June 15, HIV» Mn Kuby Hcnrtmi. Me|H>rter Htouc W-F-4 Published Every Thursday at Cottage Grove, Oregon Established August 15, 1SS9 Subscription rates, eash in advance, No subscription for less tua;i three month«. 1 Yr. 6 Mos. 3 Mos. In Lane and Itouglas Counties ........... 2..»0 1 50 1.00 Outside This District........... ........ .......... 3.00 1.75 1-50 Foreign rates on application. W. C. MARTIN ...................... Editor. Publisher (EDttofK 6rovc fmtinri MILTON. ORE.: Th«' recent "Why 1 Should Trade at Himu*" contort sponsored by the Milton-Free water t.'hamber of Commerce, drew a big response, with eight U h il high sehiHil students writing > prize-w inning essays. Such sentiments as “People do not realize that the business hous es in then district are required to pay a tax that goes for wages of local high school teachers" and It everyon«* would trade In his own home town the quality of giHsis would increase, and the price would d«x-rease" were ap- plauded by the local merchants -.ponsonng the "trad«' at home" essay contest. • • • ManasUls Keillor X.lvertlein« Muias« *»rt»ty Kdltor, Pbnwn hOlY. 55« Kenneth Cushman (HU.. Manin Mn. Miriam Adkin» Entered at Cottage Grove, Oregon, as second class matter. NATIONAL EDITORIAL IT MAY BE A WOMAN'S WORLD The traditional lament from the so-called "hen pecked male” is growing louder as more and more women are invad ing the employment field and infiltrating where it hurts the mucc,. in the nation’s job marts. The employment of women says a recent survey, which suffered a two year post wai slump, has come back with a bang as 18,000,000 of them now collect regular pay checks and now account for 29 per • cent of the nation's work force. . According to a Wall Street Journal survey the number ■ of women job holders ami job seekers has jumped 24 per cent in the past ten years, while the number of men workers has . crept up a scant 7.7 per cent. ’The trend may be a worry to a lot of men. but to the jnatidh's shopkeepers it may mean good news and ring a • lot of cash registers as it shifts more purchasing power from men to women. GETTING INTO POLITICS; A NEW HEADACHE This community has never enjoyed the distinction of be ing a county seat town, which partly explains the apparent »lack of interest in politics so far as county politics goes and Iperhaps the lack of interest may even extend into state and «national fields. At any rate we have missed a lot of head- | aches. But occasionally we do have a candidate for a county lor state office and we have to have candidates for city office •although the candidate is more often given a sort of a back hand push to get him in the latter job, since a city job carries a lot of responsibility, but little or no pay. An active candi date usually finds the job carries an unusual amount of •headaches, for those who may give him or her the most Encouragement to start with often desert his camp. Or he finds a lot of voters who may be free with promises, but seldom make these promises good. The majority like to vote *for the winner if they can judge who the winner might be and have no scruples against breaking a promise to support a 'certain candidate, if they think the candidate may fail to be The winner. As a community institution which is supposed to be the mouthpiece of the section it serves." a newspaper does not al ways escape the unpleasant situations which may arise out of the campaign. We either don’t support the candidate Vigorously enough or recite his abilities and sing his praises enough to suit his friends or it might be that we have failed io assume the attitude of a dictator and tell the people how o vote which incurs the displeasure of the candidate or his friends. . - <-> A^ver the years of our newspaper connection we recall two instances where we were foolish eirnugh to open the columns of our newspaper for the prospective candidate to xtiscuss the issues involved and after donating several col umns of space, wound up by making an enemy of the candi date. Now we know better, but these same instances show how easy it is to get excited over trivial matters and per haps hold a grudge for years. All of which leads us to the conclusion that when a campaign ends, forget it. MORE TH AN ONE ALARMED AT FEDERAL SPENDING More than one organization and individual are alarmed at the current rate of federal spending. Under the title of "Federal Spending Facts”, the Council of State Chambers of Commerce deplores the fact that new taxes would hit the low income groups and says in part: “If all personal incomes in excess of $10,000 a year were confiscated by Uncle Sam, it would barely give him the addi tional money needed to wipe out the $5 > 2 billion deficit and finance the $1 billion first year’s cost of the new Federal spending programs proposed in the 1951 budget. - “Since the nation faces a choice of submitting to higher taxes or reducing federal spending if Uncle Sam is to live within his income, the Council of State Chambers of Com merce today pointed up some of the difficulties in increasing federal revenues. “This study revealed that if, for instance, the federal government set $50,000 as the maximum income that could be retained by individuals and took outright all income above $50,000, it would get only about $843 million more than it gets now from present taxes on those incomes. This $843 million would be enough to run the federal government only one week. "Or suppose Uncle Sam called $25,000 the most anyone could have and took everything made above that figure. That 1 would give the government a little over $2 billion in addi tional revenue. This is just a little less than the government intends to spend on agricultural activities and subsidies alone in 1951. But, of course, Uncle Sam would never think of taking such a big tax bite because he knows he would destroy all personal incentives to earn that much again. “The survey showed further that in spite of the high taxes on incomes of $100,000 and over, Uncle Sam collected only $1.2 billion from 10,844 persons with such incomes in 1947 which is the latest year for which complete setatistics are available. This total was only 6V2 per cent of all income taxes paid that year. And tax rates on incomes over $100,W0 that year ranged from 67 per cent to as high as 91 per cent. “On the other hand, 51 million taxpayers reporting in- ‘ comes of less than $5,W0 in 1947 paid $8>/2 billion which is 48 per cent or almost half of the income taxes collected that J year. “The Council said, ‘There is no getting around the fact that any additional burden of taxes must fall on the lower income groups. They have only two choices: submitting to I more taxes or demanding cuts in present spending with a , • halt to new spending’.” ' ----------------------------- CLAFLIN, KANSAS, CLARION: “Payments of Social Security old age benefits ... are not being paid out of the money that was paid into the government treasury in payroll ’ -1 taxes. That money is gone—used up by the federal spenders. I social security money which the government has borrowed.! < All that represents it is government bonds issued for the Interest on these bonds is used to pay social security benefits . and this interest is paid by taxpayers, in addition to the f money they have already paid in as a payroll tax.” , “We have talked entirely too much about ‘security’. ihere has been too much emphasis on ‘riskless savings’ and ‘safe future’. We should do more talking about people be coming owners of business."—Emil Schram. Washington Letter Th«* women of the Friendly Neighbors club will s|k>nsor a lieneflt dance al Walker Saturday night, Jun«* 17. The proce«*<l.s will go to Hu* school district lor the playah«*d fun«i. Lunch will I m * sold in th«* old high school building Around «Ml wag cleared hum the b«*ne(it dance given by the Saginaw-Walker Omununily club at the hall Sat unlay night. Mis. George Getty s|K*nt three ■lays in Bend last week atlemling a iHMdinasters convention. Mr and Mrs. Georgi* Drink water moved to Eugene last week, where Mr Drinkwuler is employ- ed. Hal Callantine left for Montana Sunday, where he will spend the summer with lelatives Bobbie Copp of (.'ullage Grove Is visiting his father Sam t’opp Ada Mao Kelchersid«* of Mount View spent a couple of days last week with Linda Bash. Mr and Mrs. Tom Lane, newly weds, left for their bom«* at Santa Rosa, California. Monday after spending a week at th«* II <) Laird home. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Smith and children. Marleen and Gordon of Riddle stopped on their way home from the Rose Festival in Port land to visit at tlie home of Mr. Smith's sister. Mrs. Lottie Kirken dall. Marleen and Gordon playisi in the Riddle band in th«* parade at Portland. Mr». Kirkendall's mother. Mis. Ella Smith and a niece, Marie Mecum of Portland who actompmiied the Smiths to Riddle, were also guests at th«* Kirkendall home. Other guests were Mr and Mm. U*slu* Maugh of Sutherlin. T«*d Thompson who is employe«! in Eugene, spent the week end at his liome here. W. G. McAtee. Waynne Hilton. R. P. Bash and Johnny Bash *| m hi the week end on u fishing trip into eastern Oregon. George Conley is proudly dis playing a gold nugget which he found at his m I n e on Sharp's Creek. MEAX ERR HI V JERSEY -r I M'NMVMIIIK GSEENIIOl’NEM I HOM IIAROI.I» ( LARK » ENLARGES, MODKKNI/ES Mr mid Mrs. R M Seaver of The office and display room of the Sunnyside Greenhouses nt Cottage Grove hme purcliascd the 17<1| West Main is undergoing en registered Jersey. Viscount Lucile. largement mid Is iM'ing iiHMlern- I rimi llmnld <'Im k of Creswell, It ized Th«* floor s|NU*e in the build was miiumnced this week by the ing will I h * enlarged Io aliotit twice Anu-rirmi Jersey Callie dub. Jerseys ar«* reglsterc«! at th«* its site and when eomplrted will I h * Id by 22 fis*t. A modernistic national ultice of the club in Co touch Is IM'ing added to tin* in liimbus, o^lo. Complete rwords terior which is being finished in on a 11 registered Jerseys have knotty hemhx'k Face brick will bi'cn kept by the organization I m * used along the front of II» sine«* I KUH. building. The remodeling is being i EvcrylMidy reads Hie Classified doni* by. Russi li Wolcott OREGON - AT - LARGE: For some mysterious reason the fc- I male still excells the male in scholastic accomplishment at least on the high school level. In nearly every Oregon high school, it’s the girls who give the valedictory and salutatory ad- dresaes at commencement. In Athena. Marita Carlson and Con- nie Harris tied for top honors; than our labor cost alone. U. S. Reedsport Union high school’s plywood, few example, costs 43 per s.dutatorians are Patricia Ann cent more to produce than plywood Taylor and Ruth Ine* Miller, anil produced in Canada. Since 11)47 valedictorian. Florence Rookard, foteign flower bulbs have flooded at Ashland, Joanne Downing and the market here at such low Kay Beck will do the honors, and prices that our growvrs are driven in Ontario it's Lola Margaret out of business. But up to now. at Brooke. least, our State department of Since science has not revealed ficials who set tariff rates have turped their tracks on United any superior intelligence on the States producers and ap{>ear to part of either the male or the fe think only in terms of aiding male, it is probably safe to as sume that this apparent female foreign industry. superiority among hi^h school I have not heard of any case stuiients may lx* attributed to wherein local producers are ask philosophy among the boys tha il ing an advantage over foreign just isn't ‘smart’ to get good goals. All that our jieople are ask grades. ing is that tariff rates be so fixed that foreign produce will sell at prices that are reasonably near competitive with domestic prices based' upon costs in the United States. • • • Shortly after the end of the war our benevolent government went ALUMIN relieves dhtreMlng symptom« into the business of financing pre of "Mrvoui «tomach"— heaviness aftsr moab, bakhing, bloating and coUe dua to fabricated houses via a privately gas. ALUMIN has boon scientifically owned corporation known as Lus tea tod bydoctors and found highly effective. tron. The Reconstruction Finance There's only one thing a person Moro than a % billion eold to date. Ash for Corporation, which poured $37.- gets in life for nothing; a bad ALLI MIN Garlic Tablets 500,000 into the Lustron Corpora Cottagi* (Trove l’burmacy tion. has bid in the firm for name. A person should not think Cottage Grove, Oregon $6,000,000. At the sale of the they’re smart. Let others think 63? Main Lustron assets the RFC offered you are smart and you show them the only bid, announcing it was D. P. (Darn Poor! Potter acting to "protect” its interests. Lustron repaid the government to Washington's Time ynly $1,000,000 on the huge loan Jn the days of Washington and made to the firm. The RFC says Lincoln most people raised their that the Lustron plant will remain own gr tin and either ground it closed while it tries to resell to ■hcmselves or had it ground at a private interests. nearby gristmill. ’Hie houswke used The annual shortage of box ears on the railroad system which serves the Oregon country has be- gun earlier than usual this year. The best estimate is that shoppers ire now receiving only 70 per cent if the cars they need. The princi pal commodity affected is lumber. Unless this condition is improved <oon employment in the lumber ind logging industry will be re duced accordingly. Ordinarily there is a seasonal shortage of cars which occurs in the fall when the grain crop must be moved. Usually the condition, hough serious and costly, does not last more than a couple of nonths. But this year is different. The car shortage began to be felt n May and shows no signs of iiminishing as the peak grain oading weeks approach. What is ’he reason for the car shortage low? The basic trouble is that the ail roads own box cars enough to landie the rail transportation reeds of a population of 13O.000.V00 neople but not enough cars to «erve our present pojiulation of 150.000,000. However, the off-sca- son appearance of a shortage is «aid to be due, first, to the upset n our rail network caused by the recent strike on a number of bads. Secondly, Un prulongcd coal it like caused the railroads con- iiderable trouble the effects of which are still felt. I have spent considerable time discussing the problem with of ficials of the Interstate Commerce Smallest State Capital ?om mission here. They state Carson City, Nev., with fewer frankly that they cannot figure than 2 5X1 inhabitants. Is the small Hit a solution that will give any est state capital in the United immediate relief. Cars cannot be Stites I produced by passing a law or issuing an order. Apparently the railroad officials are just going to have to pull off their coats and ■step up their operating efficiency. » • » Potter’s Patter NERVOUS STOMACH June 13,11:30 A. M. Joshua Time GtHulm-ss! Can't smuelHHly do »oiuHhbig? Thin cloudy weather lia» »hortra«*«i our dai light hour». I liirni'il the clock hands ahead some more—didn't help a I'll—then I turnvil them baci«—«till cloudy. Maybe II we could turn one hand bachwards amt the other forward It would help. Well next Sunda.i we ulll han* to depart from our Id hour n day open policy and «'lost* up for it three hour |M*rlixl. t:IM> I*. M. to 3:<HI P. M.. w will he closed—three hour««—Why? Well. Iitti I» getting married mi we want Io see the knot lied. Boy, do you remember back to thu»«* day» of "Will you", “1 will”, and "Ho you", "I Do”, All! thoiu* were the days. 4 mi took her In the hand, finally got up enurnge and blurted out "Will ion marry me?” Iler hand tightened around yours—you thuught It was hue, well »he probably was holding on iifruitl you would gel away. Iler yolce qtinirrcd a» »h<* an- »wered—"lei. I will,” 1 on thought that na» caused by tlmld- II»»»—probably eagernrs«. Anyhow now you can look back and m *>* why papa let them ferii yon good company meni» and ahoiied Just enough opposition to you as a prua|M<ctlvr son-In law to make you more determined to get the girt. In fact you may In* doing the urne thing lo »orín* young fellow'. Well It I» great to rrnn'mlwr back uhm you felt that you could lick the wurlìi Imre liaiideil and Ui«* girl bcllried you could glie It two rounds to start.—but more eoiiifortlug to know that although you failed to gilè Ilie world a proper trouncing, the same girl non thinks it makes no difference whether you libi or not as you gave It a good battle—all you had to giic. Now «hr Is more Interested in how you feel anil what you would like to rat. Well, that 1» where we cam«* In to the picture. Mhe can <l«a»i- oyer hen* most anytime betwrn 7 t. M ami II I*. M. and get the pr««|M*r Ingrrdh'llts for a pro|wr meal. Still hale a frw fresh fryers, Cantwell’s ‘76’ Service and Junior Market lliwuy 9!) North — Phone 221 K — CottaKe Grove. On*. LISTEN To The Cottage Grove Hour fresh whole-grain flour to bake the bread and rolls for her family. In this way. practically all the vita mins and minerals of the grain were present in the homemade bread Every Monday Wednesday Friday 7:45 8:00 A M. Music - News thru the Courtesy of the Sentinel KORE Lately I have made appearances before the Committee for Recipro city Information on behalf of the mib and plywood industries. The committee with that fancy name is not much more than a “wailing wall" at which people may recite their troubles. The troubles are •aused by the way in which the state department is reducing tariffs under the reciprocal trade agreements Jaw. The bulb growers and plywood workers are in the unfortunate position of sending their tax money to help build up foreign industries which then •hip goods produced by low paid labor to this country. They can and do sell their products for leu “Fuel for Man or Car” 1450 on Your Dial ONE Look Y m . a tool' will ihow you why IT» Ford for Faihion. again for '5OlOnco again ford'i modern ityling »»mud It th* Faihion *c»d«my'y ciw«t»d medal m ' F »»lnon C»r of the Year" . No oth»r cer al any price he« re ceived wch an honor ? yeeai in • row. 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